Month: September 2012

Peggy Bechko Writes More About Writing

From novelist Peggy Bechko’s uberhelpful blog:

Writer – Tell Your Readers Only What They Need To Know! – by Peggy Bechko (from Peggy’s blog)

As writers, it’s good for us to think a bit about how the brain works and what it’s really looking for in many things, but for us the important issue is what does it want from a story? read article

Naked Writer Dept: How Writers Risk Their Lives

One writer, anyway, and, yes, we consider the possible effects of what she’s doing to be life-threatening. (Non-writers may not agree but they’re wrong.)

Waitaminnit! She isn’t naked! Dayum!

Silvia Hartmann is The Naked Writer

DragonRising’s star author Silvia Hartmann (Energy EFT,Aromatherapy for Your Soul, Infinite Creativity) has launched a fascinating new project to connect with her readers in an exciting new way – and we need your help! read article

Not Inspector Spacetime AKA Not Doctor Who AKA Travis Richey’s First Episode is Up and Running

If you’re a COMMUNITY fan and/or a DOCTOR WHO fan, you’ll love this Travis Richey-created web series startlingly similar to the series within a series on the show. A series within a series that is, itself, startlingly similar to a certain 49+ year old BBC space/time traveling show.

And here’s a little “making of” video to go with the little video above: read article

John Ostrander Nails the Whole Learning to Write Thing

This is brilliant:

John Ostrander: How I Learned to Write – by John Ostrander (Comic Mix)

One of the pleasures of the Internet and of Facebook in particular is that sometimes old friends find you or you find them and you get a chance to re-establish old bonds. One such for me is David Downs who I knew in my Loyola University theater days. Recently, he was asking about my writing and about writing plays and I realized – by Gum! – there was a column in it. Thanks, David! read article

Fake Copyright Takedown Requests and Us

It happens everyday: Somebody’s intellectual property gets taken down from a site – often YouTube – even though there’s no question that the person who uploaded it is the owner and wants it out there. As creators/users/viewers what can we do to keep the information flow running – without aiding and abetting I.P. “piracy?”

TorrentFreak.Com has some ideas:

Not the original pic for this article. In fact, TVWriter™ “borrowed” it from a fine article on interweb censorship by Erik Kain at Forbes.Com. (Check it out!)

Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punished? – by Ernesto read article